Originally Posted by
5DMarkIIguy
I asked them to book at a few properties with Virtuoso rate but none of the travel specialists can do it. They said they aren't part of virtuoso. Used to be.
Another problem is they can't do 2016. They can book for you but the 4th night benefits are not renewed for 2016 just yet.
Thanks for the feedback. I tried to book the virtuoso rates as well, but the feedback I got was that the two programs "are incompatible," which is really disappointing. Presumably, the cut that they make off the virtuoso hotels at the virtuoso rate is less than the standard 20%, but its still disappointing that they can't extend both benefits, especially to (presumably) some of their biggest spenders on a very high annual-fee card.
2016 is not a problem for me yet (I'm surprised people book stuff this far in advance!), but it sucks that you can't do it.